Awesome / Smite

• Poseidon's victory animation: He rides the gargantuan Kraken like a mechanical bull!
• Anhur's victory animation: He tosses his mighty spear off-screen and waits for a moment, holding his hand up. Nothing happens for a couple of seconds, before he catches the spear once more. In other words: he just threw that thing across the world and knew exactly that it would circle back to his hand!
• Susano's victory animation is basically beckoning the head of Orochi to come at him, and he kills them. Over and over.
• Pentakills. Especially when you stack them up.
• In general, getting that first kill with a newly-unlocked god. Especially if you have to change up your tactics and playstyle, or end up carrying the game for your team!
• In 2015, Smite unleashed its first cinematic trailer. Behold the battles between Neith vs Fenrir, Thor vs Guan Yu and a Big Damn Heroes by Ymir!
• The prize pool for the first annual SMITE World Championship was over 2.4 million dollars, making it the third largest prize pool for the genre ever. To make it even more impressive, 1.8 million of the prize pool was paid for by the fans buying skins to support the tournament.
• The Archon Thanatos skin, which evolves the higher level you get.
  • And in the next year, there's another awesome skin: Ragnarok Force X Thor, which turns Thor into a young anime-ish Henshin Hero who becomes something akin to a Gundam all with extra original animation that are awesome. This is also to herald the most requested Japanese Pantheon coming at 2016. My body is ready!
• Hi-Rez actually brought Kevin Sorbo to voice Retro Hercules.
• The teaser trailer for Horus and Set showcases a brief yet nonetheless epic duel between the two rival gods.
• Cthulhu's reveal and lore video gives one to Zeus. Most of the cinematic has the Greeks falling into madness or chaos from Cthulhu's return. Zeus' response? Face down the mountain-sized horror, and summon a lightning bolt in his hand to prepare for the oncoming fight. Standing against Cthulhu is one thing; doing so without fear is another entirely.
  • This one actually makes sense - Zeus already has experience with fighting another monster like Cthulhu, Typhon. This isn't the first time he's faced a mountain sized horror.
• The crossover skins, allowing Team RWBY, Cinder Fall, Aang, Zuko, Toph, Iroh, Azula, Roku, Korra, Danny Phantom, Jenny Wakeman, Invader Zim, Rocko, Powdered Toast Man, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Splinter, Shredder, Krang, Eleven, Jim Hopper, the Demogorgon, the Mind Flayer, Rambo, the Transformers, G.I. Joe and COBRA, the cast of RuneScape, characters from Magic: The Gathering, Ironmouse, Apricot, Silvervale, Ve, Nyanners, Kson, and even Slipknot and Bob Ross to take part in the war of the gods!
  • The Captain Ersatz skins allows for even more Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny scenarios, as it's possible to have representations of the Xenomorph (through Dread Queen Serqet), the Predator (through Trophy Hunter Kali), Ash Williams (through Hail to the King Tyr), Jason Voorhees (through Slaughterhouse Chaac), Leia Organa (through Intergalactic Chang'e), The Incredible Hulk (through Gamma Slam Cabrakan), The Flash (through Captain Quick Mercury), Conan the Barbarian (through Barbarian Thor), Sephiroth (through Final Boss Thanatos), Donkey Kong (through Drums Out Raijin), the Good Hunter (through Fiend Hunter Artio), Connor Kenway (through Secret Order Ullr), Remilia Scarlet (through Vampiric Scylla) and Red (through Monster Trainer Erlang Shen) fight each other and all of the above.
• In the reveal trailer for Tiamat and Gilgamesh, Tiamat introduces herself by utterly b-slapping Cthulhu over the horizon with an energy ball roughly a 23rd of his size.
• Gilgamesh’s own teaser trailer is full of awesomeness befitting the earliest known mythical hero. What does he do when confronting Tiamat, a draconic creator goddess who existed before the universe? Dropkick her in the face.
• After being introduced, Sir Lancelot stops a fight between Ullr and Artio, while way out of his league, it definitely shows a lot of guts to step between two gods and HAVE THEM LISTEN.

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